Adding, editing, and removing legends

- Most Excel charts contain a legend,…typically used to describe colors on a chart.…On this worksheet called YearData,…we've got a chart to the right of the data,…there it is there, you can see how the colors…correspond with Domestic, Europe, and Asia.…There's a chart below this data,…as I scroll downward, and similarly we see…the legend off to the right there too.…And when you create a chart, after highlighting data,…for example I want a chart here,…showing the first six months, I'll simply…go to the "Charts" tab, choose "Column,"…I want it to be a "Clustered Column" chart,…and there's the chart and the legend off to the right.…

If you click a legend, you see…that it has eight handles on it.…You could possibly move the legend up or down,…as you wish, or on top of the data even,…you can move it around the screen as needed…or as you desire.…You could also provide it with a color background.…So after moving it around and placing it where you wish,…you might just add a color background by way…of the "Format" tab, and you can choose…